Re: Arm AArch64 port - search for interested people

[Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:22:22PM -0500, Strake wrote:
> > On 11/09/2013, Bortis Kevin <Kevin.Bortis@ruf.ch> wrote:
> > > Is someone interessted to help out with a musl ARM Aarch64 port? I got
> > > the message, that I will receive a dev board Q2/2014 for a new project,
> > > so I hope to have a working musl toolchain by then :)
> > 
> > I am interested. I shall ask an AMD A-series dev board sample when
> > available. I can likely start hacking this significantly next term,
> > from May. Is the status at
> > http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Porting/AArch64 accurate now?
> 
> I haven't followed efforts to port to aarch64, so I can't answer
> whether it's accurate. I just spent a few minutes looking at the
> partial port linker from the wiki
> (https://github.com/wermut/musl-aarch64) and it looks like a good bit
> of the work has been done and it might be fairly easy to finish it up.
> Either way, it would be great to have someone working on it again!

One thing to note: there seems to be some fishy stuff in the bits
headers we should check out, like whether blksize_t really needs to be
"int" (it's long on other systems), explicit use of "unsigned int"
instead of nlink_t without defining nlink_t to match, possibly-wrong
sysvipc structures (it looks like the legacy ones are being used
instead of the "64" ones, but I may be wrong), namespace issues in
bits/signal.h, ...

Rich